Les IXV livres des paragraphes de Ph. Theoph. Paracelse Bombast,...où sont contenus en epitome ses secrets admirables...; traduicts du latin en françois,...par C. de Sarcilly...
A French translation of Paracelsus's medical writings, issued in Paris in 1631 by the publisher Hervé du Mesnil and translated for French-reading physicians and readers of medicine. The pictures are letterpress pages with large decorative woodcut initials, fleurons and dense black-letter-style text blocks, and a designer could take from them ornamental capitals with leafy and scrollwork ornament that suit editorial headers and drop caps.
